Mickey Finns Güdenkrisp Kolsch

Brewed by Mickey Finns Brewery & Pub
Style: Kölsch
Libertyville, Illinois USA

tap at the repeal prohibition festival. pours light yellow with a small soapy white head. nose is grassy with some active kolsch yeast here, almost skunky notes. very grassy flavors with quite a bit of grassy/spicy hops. definately a refreshing brew for shure. assertive grassy notes all the way through to a long finish. I could drink this one for hours. well done kolsch, a very nice style if you ask me.

Crisp floral hop aroma, light bodied, standard dry Kolsch finish. Above average for its style, which is not my favorite.

Sampled at Schlafly’s Repeal of Prohibition Fest along with Beerdrenched. Pours yellow with a light white head. The aroma is grainy and grassy with a bit of skunk. Medium / light body with a pleasant sharp carbonation. The taste starts grassy and grainy with pale malt. The finish brings in some spicy hops. Nothing fancy, just a well done kolsch.

Cask version at 2007 NotLA. Lager/malt liquor aroma. Cloudy yellow body. Very lagerish flavor. A little diacetyl. Fruity and dry. Not bad, but not overly representative of the style.

Pale yellow color, extremely clear and vibrant, no head. Aroma is lemons and yeast. Taste is crisp and refreshing - a good match on a mid-April, 71-degree day. Flavor is predominantly lemony. Low bitterness. Somewhat astringent, but for once, that doesn’t bother me. Dry, silently sour finish. Mickey Finn’s did a nice rendition with this one.

Clear golden color with a frothy white head. Grainy, yeasty bread lager aroma is lightly sweet. Light bodied. Nice bready malt yeasty flavor is mildly sweet. Has a bit of a spicy hoppy bitterness to finish. Refreshing drink for a hot summers afternoon.

Poured a dull, clear golden with a medium cap of creamy white head and some lacing. Nose was soft and grainy with some biscuity sweetness.. dusty noble hop accents. Flavor had a sweet biscuity base with moderate, dry bitterness surrounding.. faint head of citrus extends through a short finish.. solid. Light-bodied with rather high carbonation.. tad grainy.. felt and tasted very good for the style.

Sampled at the Schlafly "Repeal Of Prohibition" beer festival, I use to like the similiar offering from Schlafly, but these were side by side at festival, and this won out. Lemon honey, light, sweet pale malts and a little spiciness to the nose, the lemon honey returns in the taste giving it a light fruitiness, thin sweet grainy maltiness, and a very soft grassiness, spiciness at the end. The body had the feel of a lite beer.